Aspera On Demand for Amazon Web Services

Aspera is first in the world to offer seamless, line-speed ingest and distribution of very large media files to and from cloud-based object storage such as the AWS S3 service, independent of distance, and completely secure. With digital supply chains now spanning the globe and the complexity associated with transferring ever-larger file sizes over longer distances increasing exponentially, digital media companies can now realize the full benefits of the cloud with Aspera On-Demand solutions for the high-speed transfer, processing, and storage, of their digital content.

High-speed, direct-to-S3

Aspera Direct-to-S3 eliminates the two bottlenecks across the WAN and inside the datacenter to enable direct I/O in and out of Amazon S3 storage from all Aspera clients and servers. Direct-to-S3 performs high-speed fasp transfers over the WAN, and transparently handles cloud-specific I/O including S3 multi-part uploads delivering unrivaled performance for the transfer of large files, or large collections of files, in and out of the cloud.

Using parallel HTTP streams between S3 and the Aspera On-Demand server running on Amazon EC2, the intra-cloud data transfer no longer constrains the overall transfer rate. The files are written directly to S3, without a stop-off on EC2, achieving transfer rate improvements of up to 10x per virtual machine instance over the typical cloud transfer solutions.

Aspera Shares provides a simple and intuitive way for companies to share content in the form of files and directories, of any size, within their organization or with external customers and partners.

Easy-to-use Web InterfaceA single Web interface provides consolidated access and easy navigation across distributed files and folders. Users have powerful search capabilities to locate the files or folders they need, and initiate a high-speed file upload or download. Basic operations can be performed on a single file or folder, or on a collection of files and folders and all actions are logged and viewable in the activity feed.

Powerful security and access modelAdministrators have granular control over which shares, directories and files each user can access, as well as the operations the user is allowed to perform. The security model is administered through a single management point combining authorization, user management, and access control.

Support for private, public and hybrid clouds As companies adopt the Cloud for on demand storage, they are often faced with the choice of where to place their most important digital content. With Aspera Shares, they have complete flexibility in where the content is placed. Whether it is stored in an existing datacenter, a remote office, or public cloud storage such as Amazon Web Services S3, Aspera Shares can consolidate all of the content and provide seamless access across all the nodes, hiding the physical location from the end user.

Complete Security Built in security includes user authentication, data integrity validation, and encryption over the wire and at rest. Downloaded packages can be automatically decrypted on the fly, if the recipient has been provided the passphrase, or will be downloaded and stored in an encrypted package until the sender provides the passphrase at a later date.

Key Features and Benefits

Maximum data transfer performance

Transfers are powered by fasp™ - packages are sent at high-speed, regardless of file sizes, transfer distance, or network conditions.

Precise bandwidth control for maximum transfer speeds and fairness to other traffic.